The Pale Exile
The quarterly tonnage ledger sat in Elias Thorne’s hands, its cover worn soft by years of grease and sweat. He was twelve years old, a junior clerk in the sub-basement of the Blackwood Ironworks, and his fingers were stained with the same iron oxide that coated the linoleum floor. The want was simple and concrete: secure his permanent apprenticeship by filing these ledgers correctly before the...
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